Clear and Present Danger

BY SVEN HENRICH The Federal Reserve and other central banks represent a clear and present danger to future financial stability. I’ve been saying for a while central banks are fueling an asset bubble and as global market distortions keep expanding …

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The Tyranny Nobody Talks About

by Charles Hugh-Smith All the tricks to hide our unaffordable cost structure have reached marginal returns. Reality is about to intrude. There is much talk of tyranny in the political realm, but little is said about the tyrannies in the economic …

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THE EXODUS IS HERE: Techxodus: The flight of terrified techies from California to Texas marks the end of one era, and the beginning of a new one.

via tabletmag: The “pull” factors of Texas and similar conservative states—the absence of a state income tax, a pro-business (and anti-labor) political climate—are real enough. But these factors are not new—and if they were the real causes of the flight from …

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Edward Snowden: Facebook officially silences the President of the United States. For better or worse, this will be remembered as a turning point in the battle for control over digital speech.

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1347210550489583624 I know a lot of folks in the comments read this are like "YAAAAS," which, like—I get it. But imagine for a moment a world that exists for more than the next 13 days, and this becomes a milestone …

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Another Nail In The Coffin Of Big Cities

BY JOHN RUBINO  The riots, political turmoil, and other banana republic embarrassments seem to be ending – for now. So let’s get back to examining the real problems of this hyper-leveraged, dangerously-complex world. Like how big cities might soon be obsolete: …

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Bitcoin hit another fresh ATH near $40k.

#Bitcoin hit another fresh ATH near $40k. pic.twitter.com/0LqnnfunwD — Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) January 7, 2021 Which phase is Bitcoin in? pic.twitter.com/uaTsuQpE5J — Ramp Capital (@RampCapitalLLC) January 7, 2021